See Bet Din; a Jewish legal tribunal or court. … [Read more...] about BEIS DIN
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BENEFACTOR
A person or party who provides help, makes a donation to or confers financial benefits upon another. … [Read more...] about BENEFACTOR
BEDEL
In English law. A crier or messenger of court, who summons men to appear and answer therein. Cowell. An officer of the forest, similar to a sheriffs special bailiff. Cowell. A collector of rents for the king. Plowd. 199, 200. A well-known parish officer. See BEADLE. … [Read more...] about BEDEL
BELIEF
A conviction of the truth of a proposition, existing subjectively in the mind, and induced by argument, persuasion, or proof addressed to the judgment Keller v. State, 102 Ga. 506, 31 S. E. 92. Belief is to be distinguished from "proof," "evidence," and "testimony." See Evidence. With regard to things which make not a very deep impression on the memory, it may be called … [Read more...] about BELIEF
BENEFICE
In ecclesiastical law. In its technical sense, this term includes ecclesiastical preferments to which rank or public office is attached, otherwise described as ecclesiastical dignities or offices, such as bishoprics, deaneries, and the like; but in popular acceptation, it is almost invariably appropriated to rectories, vicarages, perpetual curacies, district churches, and … [Read more...] about BENEFICE